June 1. Children's Day (China, Laos.) / Navy Day (Mexico) /Festival of
Carna (Roman) / National Day Against Homophobia (Canada) / It was 41
years ago today that the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band, meaning I guess that it was 61 years ago today that he taught
the
band to play. Happy birthday Oscar the
Grouch / Its rabbit season! Duck season! Rabbit season! No. . . it's the
start of
hurricane season.

June 2. Rice Harvest Festival (Malaysia) / Juno Regina's Day (Ancient
Rome) / Queen's Birthday (New Zealand) / Shapatu of Ishtar (Babylonian)
/ Mother Shipton Day matron saint of working women. / In 1924 Congress
granted citizenship to all Indians on this day, however it was not until
1993 that their religions practices no longer illegal. / Will Eisner's
classic character The Spirit first appears in 1940. / St. Elmo's Day.
(Catholic) They've made that little red gremlin a saint now? It was bad
enough when they gave almost the whole of Sesame Street other to him! /
As of today radio is 112 years old.

June 3. Memorial Day for Broken Dolls (Japan) Buddhist observance when
broken dolls are enshrined by a priest. / Festival for Bellona (Ancient
Rome) Bellona minor Roman war goddess. / Second Festival of Pax (Ancient
Rome) A festival for a goddess of war and a goddess of peace both on the
say day… oh those ancient Roman! / In 1969 the 79th and final episode
of Star Trek aired followed shortly by the Trek religion's largest spurt
of growth. / In 1938 America gets it's first look at icon to be Superman
in Action Comics # 1.

http://community-2.webtv.net/TheObsidianMask/KalEl/

June 4. Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 memorial day. / On this day in
1070, in a cave just outside the town of Roquefort France, the first
example of the cheese we know today as Roquefort was discovered, who
made the blend? Why was it abandoned in the cave? Unknown, now THERE is
an idea for a conspiracy! / Ford made his first operational car on this
day 112 years ago, Hey, just in time
for it to be announced on the radio from the day before yesterday, to
bad there was only one around at that time.

June 5. World Environment Day (U.N.) / National Gingerbread Day (U.S.) /
First
flight by balloon by the Montgolfier brothers, 1783

June 6. Teacher's Day (U.S.) Yeah... You folks in the holiday naming biz
DO know that most schools are out for the summer now don't you? /
Queensland day (Australia) / Anniversary of D-Day. / National Donut or
Doughnut Day (U.S.) always held on the first Friday in June. /
Crossroads of Artemis (Ancient) Greek) / First drive-in movie theater
ever opens In New Jersey in 1933, I have no idea what was playing that
night.

June 7. Unionsopplosningen (Norway) / first day of Vestalia (Ancient
Rome) held in honor of Vesta. / National Chocolate Ice Cream Day (U.S.)
So what's with all the chocolate themed days this month? / National Moth
Night (U.K.) Note that's a K not an S, so we in the States aren't the
only ones for this kind of thing, night for Britain to celebrate moths
and moth
recording. / Vatican City becomes nation in 1929.

June 8 Milad-un-Nabi (Islam) Mohammed dies or ascends into heaven in
632. / World Ocean Day. / Shavuot (Jewish) Starts at sundown. Also know
as the Festival of Weeks & Day of the First Fruits / Lindisfarne Day
(Odinist)

June 9. Sigurdsblot (Norse) festival honoring Sigurd (Sigifrith or
Siegfreid),the great hero who killed the dragon Fafnir and won back the
treasure of the Rhine. / Queen's Birthday (Australia, except for Western
Australia) Huh? /
Donald Duck's Birthday, 74 years old.

June 10. On this date in New Haven, Connecticut in 1682, the first
tornado was
reported in America, many years before the first freight train so I have
no idea what they said it sounded like. / Trooping the Colour (United
Kingdom) Military celebration of the monarch's official birthday held in
London on the second
Saturday of June. / National Yo Yo Day (U.S.) Oy Vay yo-yo day!

June 11. Feast of Fortuna (Ancient Rome) Day for the Goddess of fortune,
chance and luck. / King Kamehameha I Day (Hawaiian) It was said that he
was so strong he could brake open a coconut using one hand. / Davis Day
(Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada) held in
remembrance of William Davis, who ever the heck he was.

June 12. Araw ng Kalayaan (Philippines) Independence Day / Russia Day
(Russian
Federation) Independence Day / Dia dos Namorados (Brazil) Lover's Day;
similar to St. Valentine's day / World Day Against Child Labor
(International)

June 13. Ganga Dussehra (Hindu) Birthday or descent of the Ganges River
or Ganga Ma, Mother Ganges. / All Soul's Day (Tibetan) / Feast of Epona
goddess of horses (Celtic) / Athena's Day (Greek) / Quinquatrus
Minusculae (Ancient Roman) Day for Minerva. / it's the only Friday the
13th in 2008 today! / The space probe Pioneer 10 has been outside the
solar system for 13 years now, so watch it pick THIS day to plow into an
alien spaceship full of touchy bug-eyed monsters.

June 14. Birthday of the Muses (Ancient Greek) / Poson (Sri Lanka) Day
to celebrate the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka in 256 B.C.E. /
Flag Day (U.S.) / It was on this day in 1954 that Dwight Eisenhower
signed an order
adding "Under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. The Theory being that
all those Commies hiding under all those beds in the 50's would melt
away in fear on hearing this.

June 15. Father's Day (U.S., Canada, Brittan, Ireland, Northern Ireland)
Stated in 1910 in Spokane, Washington. While Mother's Day has been
adopted by a lot of other countries, it seems far fewer have taken up
Father's Day. What, other countries' dads don't need socks and loud
ties? / Feast of Saint Germaine
Cousin (Roman Catholic) Patron of shepherdesses & victims of child
abuse.
Would somebody kindly poke him and tell him to stop slacking off? No,
no, just about the latter part, as far as I know things have been going
alright for shepherdesses lately.

June 16. Night of the Teardrop (Ancient Egypt) Festival where
Priestesses of Isis were said to control the weather by braiding and
releasing their hair. For related item see Grimm's fairy tale The Goose
Girl. / Bloom's Day (Dublin) You
know from the novel Ulysses by James Joyce that you haven't read, or if
you have read it didn't get all the way though, or if you did read the
whole thing didn't get it. / National Fudge Day (U.S.) I guess this puts
America about neck and neck with the ancient Romans and their seeming
endless list of festivals, I bet if
they had had chocolate there would have been a goddess for it, and this
could have very well have been the day for Fudgeeta. Works for me.

June 17. Marriage of Orpheus and Eurydike (Ancient Greek) / Watergate
Day (U.S) / Eat Your Vegetables Day (U.S.)

June 18. In 1885 the Statute of Liberty arrived in New York aboard the
Isere. / It was on this day in 1978 that we got the first appearance of
Garfield the Cat in the comics section, 30 years old, which in cat years
would make him, gets out calculator and does some figuring, ….. Dead.

June 19. Juneteeth (U.S.) The oldest known celebration of the end of
slavery in America. Today Juneteenth commemorates African American
freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. / World Sauntering
Day. I
wouldn't now how to "saunter" if you paid me.

June 20. Bald Eagle Day. (U.S.) / Kuan-Yin becomes a Bodhisattva
(Chinese) / World Refuge Day. / Ice Cream Soda Day (U.S.) Call them
pointless if you want to, I can get behind this one.

June 21. Summer Solstice / Litha (Wiccan)
http://www.wicca.com/celtic/akasha/litharit.htm
/ Alban Hefin (Druidic) / Day of the Green Man (Northern Europe) / Day
on which many Slavic people celebrated the marriage of the Sun God
Dazbog & Moon Goddess Myesyats. / National Aboriginal Day (Canada) / All
Hera's Day (Ancient Rome) / Ishtar's Day (Old Babylon) / Astarte's Day
(Canaanite) / Aphrodite's Day (Greek) / Yemaya's Day (Brazilian) /Aine's
Day (Irish) / National Go Skateboarding Day (U.S.) To be followed I
assume by National Go to the ER Day. / Vinegar Day (U.S) Vinear, really?
Vinegar. Why?

June 22. Rose Festival (England) / National Chocolate Éclair Day
(U.S.) Roses and chocolate? It's like the day the spirits of Valentine's
day take the day off. / Anti-fascist Struggle Say (Croatia) / Stupid Guy
Thing Day (U.S.) A day for women to make a list of stupid guy things and
pass it on to other women to
share. How sexist, just thinking about this is going to put a crimp in
my attempt
to hang-glide from the highest mountain in my state with a skateboard
tied to my
shoes so I can ditch the glider close to the ground and land on a
highway to see
if I can get it over 60 miles an hour, it's perfectly safe… there's
hardly any traffic
on Sunday.

June 23. Father's Day (Poland, Nicaragua & Uganda) / In Ireland &
England it was once thought that on the 23rd or `St. John´s Day
Eve´, the souls of everyone left their bodies while they slept and
found the place where they would die. Now doesn´t that make for a
perfectly creepy sounding holiday? What did you dream about?

June 24. St. John's Day. Use to be a big deal, as big or even bigger
than Christmas in some places, day for lighting bonfires for St. John
the oldest of the saints' days in the Greek and Latin calendars. /
Festival of Mati-Syra-Zemlya
& Zemlya's Night (Slavic Lands).

http://community-2.webtv.net/TerMcC/Matisyrazemlia/

/ Feast of the Sun (Aztec) / It was on the 24th in 1717 that the Masons
went public in London. / This is the day on which Shakespeare's
Mid-Summer's Night Dream took place, it is also the date that people
thought Fairies were most likely to be active.

The 24th is the Day King Edward III founded the Order of the Garter in
1348, which some believe was secretly tied to the pre-Christian Pagan
beliefs of Europe.

By tradition this is the day the Pied Piper lead 130 children out of the
town of Hamlin and into a mountain.

It was on this day in 1694 that the Utopian community known as Woman of
the Wilderness (which was all male) made up of Primitive Christians,
alchemists, & mystics landed in what would come to be known as
Germantown, Pennsylvania.

It was on this day in 1701 that the above community said they were
visited by a glowing white sphere while burning their St. J Day fires.

This is also the day in 1947 that Kenneth Arnold claimed he sighted a
number of
crescent shaped objects "flying with a motion like saucers skipping over
a lake.

So Happy 61st UFOlogy!

June 25. In 1876 the day that George Armstrong Custer died for your sins
as he and
the 7th Cavalry where are out. / National Catfish Day (U.S.) Day for the
best eating of
the bottom feeding fish, it's better if you don't think about that part.
/ The day in 1962 that the
Supreme Court ruled school sponsored prayer to be unconstitutional. /
Native American Independence Day

http://www.thezephyr.com/native/indday.htm

June 26. National Chocolate Pudding Day (U.S.) / International Day in
Support of Torture
Victims, or as Dick Chaney calls it Thursday. / Beautician's Day (U.S.)

June 27. Day of the 7 Sleepers (Catholic, however there is also an
Islamic version) know
as Siebenschläfertag in Germany. / National HIV Testing Day (U.S.) /
Mixed Race Day
(Brazil) Day that honors all those who possess multiracial or
multi-ethnic origins. / Helen Keller Day (Alabama) / Iroquois Green Corn
Festival (Native American) / Joseph & Hyrum Smith killed by mob in 1844,
leading to Brigham Young being put in charge of the Mormons.

June 28. Raggedy Ann doll introduced to the world on this day in 1917 /
Song "Happy
Birthday" written in 1859. / Paul Bunyan Day. (U.S.) Whom it turns out
was not a real figure
from folklore, but was made up by two advertising men hired by a company
sold
lumber to create a friendlier image, making him sort of the Ronald
McDonald of the 18th
Century for the lumber industry.

June 29. St. Peter & St. Paul Day (Catholic) With those two together who
are you going to
borrow money from to pay the other? / Special Recreation Day for the
Disabled Day (U.S.) / Runic New Year / Feast of Ogun (Santeria)

June 30. Burning of the Three Firs (France) / On this day in 1908 a
massive explosion took
place in Tunguska, Siberia. More powerful than a hydrogen bomb, no
definitive explanation had been given for it, theories have ranged from
a comet or soft meteor, to it being a tiny chunk of anti-matter, to a
crashed spacecraft. If April is the cruelest month then June must be the
weirdest.

For future reference and images go to:

http://community-2.webtv.net/magentashadow/DaysofNote/

Terry McCombs